Rideekanda Forest Monastery

Rideekanda Forest Monastery is a Buddhist meditation training center located on a serene mountain top in a Yatawatta local council in Matale district, Sri Lanka. The mild climate, year-round clement weather, and the forested milieu offer meditation practitioners tranquility to mind and body.

The Rideekanda forest monastery offers a profound and pragmatic path to comprehend the noble truths revealed in Buddhism to the seekers of such wisdom, developed with soteriological knowledge gained through extensive study of Tripitaka put into years of practice. Our training methodology is based on Lord Buddha's teachings on Samatha, and Vipassana meditation delivered systematically in coherence with the individual's progress in understanding. We believe that a systematic, balanced, and interactive teaching of dhamma helps meditation practitioners steadily progress in the noble path specified in Buddhism.